About Ajaxwhois.com

Ajaxwhois.com is developed and maintained by Internet entrepreneur Carl Mercier as a pet project. It was originally intented to be a proof of concept and a fun side project. However, the user's response has been so overwhelming that it has since been turned into a full-blown website.

AW is a comprehensive and easy to use service for finding available domain names and obtaining WHOIS and other information about registered domain names. We strive to support every existing Top Level Domain (TLD), often refered as domain extension. The first public version was built under the Microsoft .NET platform (C#) and was released to the public on November 17, 2005.

History

• 2005-11-17: First public release, based on Microsoft .NET.
• 2005-11-20: Techcrunch reviews Ajaxwhois (ie: traffic went through the roof)
• 2005-11-21: Featured on Digg (servers got really hot!)
• 2006-3-1: R&D and development of version 2.0 started (in Ruby on Rails)
• 2006-8-15: Site (version 2.0) ported to Python and Django. RoR version never released to public.
• 2006-10-2: Version 2.0 released to public. Complete rewrite, now based on Python and Django.
• 2008-2-25: Version 2.0 ported to Ruby/Merb. Adds support for international domains (ie: foreign characters).